11.06.2026 à 14:44
Major earthquake strikes southern Philippines
At least 35 people have died after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Mindanao island in the southern Philippines, officials say.
[Update: Three days after the earthquake, the official toll standed at 45, with 630 people injured, whilst rescue teams continue their search for missing persons. Tens of thousands of people remain housed in emergency shelters. Millions of schoolchildren will be unable to return to school.]
The quake hit at 07:37 local time on Monday (Sunday (…)
11.06.2026 à 14:42
The registrar dissolved the Malaysian Trade Union Congress, and nobody noticed
Since 2022, the Anwar Ibrahim government has enacted the most union-friendly legislative reforms Malaysia has seen in decades --- loosening restrictions on union formation, prohibiting discrimination in union membership, and allocating fresh public funds to build union capacity. Private sector unionisation has nonetheless continued to fall, standing now at roughly 2.5% of the workforce.
S. Arutchelvan, Deputy Chairperson of Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM), explains how the MTUC became (…)
11.06.2026 à 14:25
Bangladesh Krishok Federation Stands with the People of the Philippines Following the Devastating Earthquake
The Bangladesh Krishok Federation (BKF) expresses its profound solidarity with the people of the Philippines who have been affected by the recent earthquake. We are deeply saddened by the loss of lives, injuries, destruction of homes, and disruption of livelihoods caused by this tragic disaster.
On behalf of our members—peasants, agricultural workers, rural women, and marginalized communities across Bangladesh—we extend our heartfelt condolences to the families who have lost their loved (…)
11.06.2026 à 10:10
L'article L214 fête ses 50 ans : en France, la sensibilité animale reconnue par la loi, mais ignorée dans les faits
Il y a cinquante ans, la loi française reconnaissait la sensibilité animale avec le désormais célèbre article L214-1 du Code rural.
Cet article a, depuis, été régulièrement mobilisé contre l'élevage intensif et ses dérives, car il reconnaît la nécessité pour chaque animal d'évoluer « dans des conditions compatibles avec les impératifs biologiques de son espèce ».
Un demi-siècle plus tard, cependant, les dernières loi Duplomb et loi d'urgence agricole s'éloignent de plus en plus de (…)
10.06.2026 à 20:21
Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form
“It has become fashionable to declare that class struggle has faded into the past (...) Class appears to have lost its centrality, surviving at best as a residual category of analysis. Yet this verdict rests on a fundamental confusion between the visibility of class struggle and its structural necessity.”
It has become fashionable to declare that class struggle has faded into the past — dissolved by deindustrialisation, scattered by fragmented labour markets, eclipsed by identity-based (…)
